Needle-holder.



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/NVENTOH Patented Mar. 26, |90I.`

N I it N Il nl NH W. W. CRWE. NEEDLE HOLDER. (Application tiled Dec. 21, 1899.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER W. CROWE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

NEEDLE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 670,665, dated March 26, 1901.

Application led December 21, 1899. Serial No. 741,079. (No model.)

To ctZ whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, WALTER W. CRowE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chivcago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Bachelor-Kit, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in bachelor-kits.

The object of my invention is to put into neat and compact form various articles which are required for the incidental or minor repairs of clothing; and to this end I have combined with a spool of thread a package of pins, some needles, and some buttons.

The accompanying drawings, which are on a materially-enlarged scale, illustrate my invention.

Figure V1 is a central vertical section thereof. Fig. 2 is a plan. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectionon line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, 4. indicates a spool of the usual form, upon which is wound in the usual manner the thread 5. Spools of this character are generally provided with an axial bore 6, and for my purpose I enlarge this bore at one end, so as to form a chamber 7 of sufcient diameter to receive the enlarged head 8 of a tubular shank 9. Wrapped about the smaller portion of shank 9 is a strip of paper 10, in which have been inserted in the usual manner a number of pins ll. Fitted within shank 9 is a tubular button-holder 12, the outer end of which is closed, as shown. The holder 12 has an external diameter such as to fit closely into shank 9 and is of sufficient internal diameter to receive a number of buttons 13. A small tab 14. may be secured to the closed end of the holder 12 to facilitate the easy withdrawal of said holder. The strip of pin-carrying paper is of suiiicient length to wrap around shank 9 times enough to fill the annular space between said shank and the wall of chamber 7; but there will be suficient yield in the paper at points to allow the introduction of several needles 15 between said paper and the Wall of the chamber. In order to hold said needles in position and also in order to prevent an accidental Withdrawal of shank 9, the needles may be pushed through head 8 thereof and into the top of the spool., as clearly shown in Fig. 1. 1

All of the pieces described are of the ordinary size, and the button-holder and hollow shank are perferably made of stiif paper. The arrangement described makes an article of manufacture which is exceedingly handy and of small cost.

I claim as my inventionl. As an article of manufacture, a spool having an axial chamber formed therein, an annular partition mounted in said chamber at a distance from the wall thereof so as to form an annular receptacle, and a hollow holder, closed at one end, removably mounted within said annular partition. V

2. As an article of manufacture, a spool, having an axial chamber formed therein, an annular partition having au enlarged head and said head being fitted within said chamber, an. annular receptacle being thus formed between the partition in the walls of the chamber, and a tubular holder, having a closed end, removably fitted Within said an- Witnesses:

FRANK F. SINKS, LINUS SANFORD, J r. 

